Works

performer
: Concertgebouworkest

instrumentation: female choir and orchestra ♦ While Diepenbrock was setting Vondel’s Rey van burchtsaeten (Choral Song of the Burghers, RC 28) for mixed choir a cappella to music in the autumn of 1892, progress was being made with the rebuilding …

instrumentation: female choir and orchestra ♦ As mentioned under RC 30, Diepenbrock’s Rey van clarissen (Choral Song of the Poor Clares) and Rey van Amsterdamsche maegden (Choral Song of the Amsterdam Virgins) were written in the same period: 4 J…

instrumentation: mixed choir and orchestra ♦ On the last page of the manuscript of the piano score of his Rey van edelingen (Choral Song of the Noblemen) for mixed choir and orchestra, Diepenbrock notated the place and date where it had been cre…

instrumentation: soloists, two mixed choirs and orchestra ♦ Already in 1892 Diepenbrock made up his mind to write a Te Deum, but the first sketches do not date until May 1896. He actually wrote the piece between 1 September and 1 December 1897. Notes in two of…

instrumentation: orchestra ♦ Diepenbrock had close contact with the Belgian composer Charles Smulders (1863-1934) and they criticised each other’s new works. Diepenbrock asked Smulders twice (in letters of 5 and 28 October 1898) …

instrumentation: soprano and orchestra ♦ Inspired by the young Dutch soprano Aaltje Noordewier-Reddingius, Diepenbrock composed Gehoben ist der Stein (Uplifted is the Stone) for her in the first half of 1899. It is one of the Hymnen an die N…

instrumentation: contralto or mezzo-soprano and orchestra ♦ At the end of 1899 Diepenbrock completed his third composition on a text from Novalis’ Hymnen an die Nacht (Hymns to the Night). This time he had a low female voice – that of the alto Pauline de Haan-…

instrumentation: soprano or tenor and orchestra ♦ In July 1902 Wenige wissen das Geheimnis der Liebe (Few Know the Secret of Love) on a text by Novalis was premiered in the original version of 1898 with organ accompaniment (RC 47). Although Diepenbro…

instrumentation: tenor and orchestra ♦ Zij sluimert (She Slumbers) is the last of the three songs Diepenbrock orchestrated at the request of the tenor Jos Tijssen, who had sung the premiere of the Abendmahlshymne (Hymn of the Last Supper, …

instrumentation: baritone and orchestra ♦ At the end of the life of his mother, Joanna Kuytenbrouwer (1833-1904), Diepenbrock read to her from a collection of novellas Portretten van Vondel (Portraits of Vondel, 1876) by the writer, literatur…